Politics

UN chief calls for ‘enhanced security support’ for Haiti, as crisis worsens; cholera deaths mount

JOA/Yes Communication Design       Deserted streets in the centre of Port-au-Prince (file)

October 10, 2022   Peace and Security

Egypt urged to ensure civil society’s full participation in COP27 climate summit

UN News/Laura Quiñones

Young climate activists take part in demonstrations at the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

October 7,  2022   Human Rights

Nobel Peace Prize winners shine spotlight on ‘the power of civil society to promote peace’

UN News/Anton Uspensky    The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway.

October 7, 2022   Human Rights

Burkina Faso: UN rights office calls for probe into coup-related deaths and injuries

WFP/Marwa Awad     Displaced people in Burkina Faso gather gather in a camp in Pissila town in the northeast of the country.

October 7, 2022    Human Rights

Haiti: Fuel crisis prompts appeal for humanitarian corridor amid cholera outbreak

UNDP Haiti/Borja Lopetegui Gonzalez    Port-au- Prince, Haiti.

October 6, 2022   Health

Horrific Thailand nursery attack prompts swift international condemnation

Unsplash/Robert Eklund

Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand, where dozens were killed during a horrific attack on a childcare centre in the region on 6 October 2022, most of them children.

Latest DPR Korea missile launch risks escalating tensions, Security Council hears

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

Torture is ‘widespread’ and likely underestimated in DR Congo: UN report

MONUSCO/Abel Kavanagh  

Guterres says Central African Republic must ‘spare no effort’ to help bring killers of UN peacekeepers to justice

MINUSCA/Herve Cyriauqe Serefi      MINUSCA peacekeepers on patrol in Central African Republic

October 5, 2022   Peace and Security

UN chief condemns DPR Korea missile launch over Japan as ‘reckless act’

OCHA/David Ohana      Street scene in Pyongyang, DPRK (file photo from October 2011).

October 4, 2022   Peace and Security